"Newcomer-2012. Summer"

13.07.2012 HellLighT (blue, Rampart, Ivor) def hunter98 (red, Castle, Valeska, Nella) 2sm4d(3) 134

We're grinding like Stakhanovites, started playing right after the distribution.
111 from me, 112 from Hunter and off we go, a good start, 11 elves from the start, a stable, money thrown in + guard of Centaurs - we're playing.

Week 1

On 111 I branched out into 5 heroes, but on the horizon there's a swarm of chests and piles of gold. The secondary turned out to be grassy, the only thing that tripped me up was 33 Dwarf Cottages with Aegis of the Guardian on the other side of the portal, even with 18 elves it was very hard to take, lost about 10 Centaurs, Ivor gets earth magic - great, I pray for the native secondary... and so it turns out - I rejoice, considering there's just mountains of gold, the richest distribution for SM that I've ever seen, Jebus Cross is... nervously smoking on the sidelines :D. Everything is going well, any crypt is cleared without problems, Ivor is leveling, but then a problem pops up, there's no Slow in the Guild of the secondary, the shrines in sanctuaries are also stingy. So we sit there with Hunter complaining to each other that there are no Griffin Conservatories at all, when by the end of the week I find 2 Griffin Conservatories on the outskirts of the secondary, I realize that Slow is needed more than ever, I make a clever move, and instead of putting Rogues in the main, I put a Guild where there's also no Slow! ta-da-dam :{ by 117 1-5 in the main's castle and 1-3 in the secondary's castle, and on top of that weighed down by a bag of 22k gold :smile54:.

Week 2

I buy out all the growth to zero and from the stable rush at full speed to the first Griffin Conservatory, there's mass Shield and a ton of health, on 122 I take it, scout - 2-4, I go in without checking, FOUR... but 56 Grand Elves, 95 Centaur Captains, 25 Dwarves, 9 Dendroids and 15 Pegasi, were quite ready for battle... however, my professionalism kicked in! it would have been better if they had Aegis of the Guardian, I as usual start placing defense on the bottom corner for the Grand Elves, and deciding that the Griffins would hit the Dwarves next to the Grand Elves, I immediately ran the Captains to close the second part of the external dwelling simultaneously hitting them (after all, 95 is a fighting stack) where another Griffin was sitting, so the Grand Elves had to wait, the Griffins didn't get confused and started splitting my Light Elves... I choked on my dinner and started crying bloody tears, especially after the top stack of 40 Griffins got morale and hit again :smile35: :smile35: :smile35: :smile07: :smile21: :smile05: :smile39: in a rage from losing 19 Grand Elves I scattered the remaining flying chickens throughout the entire conservatory, but of course I expected completely different losses (screenshot below). Nearby a well, I replenish mana, run to the second - 3-4 with Aegis of the Guardian, which I was incredibly happy about, the three fell with losses of 3 Centaurs. Scouting the land I discover another passage through the treasure zone to a swamp respawn where the opponent's movement was visible, with Boots of Speed and stables Ivor with 3+ MP, rushed to the opponent, in the treasure zone incidentally ate a Pandora's Box for 15k experience and a Sentinel's Shield, after which Ivor looked quite funny with stats 2 21 4 4. On 126 I take the swamp, on 127 I take the opponent's main, there's no air magic, so I didn't know where to run after him, well at least I took the growth and that's pleasing.

Week 3

I ran into the Inferno treasure zone through the swamp portal, as it turned out I guessed wrong, but I started devouring all the goodies there, slowly like a noob I ate another 2 of the opponent's castles, after which he became a bum with a 7-day shelf life :smile09: in the treasure zone I took a KV, a couple of Pandora's Boxes for experience, a necklace +3a+kn, on 134 the opponent capitulates. Thanks for the game